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Measurement of coronaphobia in older adults: Validation of the Spanish version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) is an instrument that measures the severity of anxiety due to COVID-19 or coronaphobia. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults are the most vulnerable age group; therefore, the aim of the study was to evaluate the psychomet...

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Autores principales: Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás, Vilca, Lindsey W., Peña-Calero, Brian Norman, Barboza-Palomino, Miguel, White, Michael, Reyes-Bossio, Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SEGG. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8765729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34924214
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regg.2021.09.001
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author Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás
Vilca, Lindsey W.
Peña-Calero, Brian Norman
Barboza-Palomino, Miguel
White, Michael
Reyes-Bossio, Mario
author_facet Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás
Vilca, Lindsey W.
Peña-Calero, Brian Norman
Barboza-Palomino, Miguel
White, Michael
Reyes-Bossio, Mario
author_sort Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás
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description BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) is an instrument that measures the severity of anxiety due to COVID-19 or coronaphobia. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults are the most vulnerable age group; therefore, the aim of the study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the CAS in this group. MATERIALS AND METHOD: 274 Peruvian older adults participated (M(age) = 67.86; SD = 6.34, 64.6% women). In addition to the CAS, the 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2), and 2-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-2) were applied. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to assess the factor structure of the CAS and Item Response Theory was used to analyze item characteristics. A sequence of hierarchical variance models was used to evaluate the measurement invariance of the CAS according to age. To assess reliability, Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α) and the omega coefficient (ω) were used. The correlations between the CAS score and the scores of the PHQ-2 and GAD-2 scales were calculated with Pearson's correlation coefficient (r). RESULTS: The results of the CFA indicated that the unidimensional model of the CAS fitted the data adequately and showed very good reliability (α and ω ≥ .83). Likewise, all items provided high information and adequate discrimination, which allowed for better detection of average and high levels of coronaphobia in the older adult population. However, the CAS did not show evidence of being strictly invariant between older adults aged 60–65 years and 66–86 years. The CAS showed significant correlations with anxiety (r = .72; [95%CI: .66, .87] p < .01) and depression (r = .53; [95%CI: .43, .76] p < .01). CONCLUSION: The CAS in Spanish shows evidence of validity based on internal structure, convergent and divergent validity, as well as an adequate reliability estimate to assess coronaphobia in older adults. The CAS can be used to detect average and high levels of coronaphobia in the older adult population.
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spelling pubmed-87657292022-01-19 Measurement of coronaphobia in older adults: Validation of the Spanish version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás Vilca, Lindsey W. Peña-Calero, Brian Norman Barboza-Palomino, Miguel White, Michael Reyes-Bossio, Mario Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol Original Article BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) is an instrument that measures the severity of anxiety due to COVID-19 or coronaphobia. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults are the most vulnerable age group; therefore, the aim of the study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the CAS in this group. MATERIALS AND METHOD: 274 Peruvian older adults participated (M(age) = 67.86; SD = 6.34, 64.6% women). In addition to the CAS, the 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2), and 2-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-2) were applied. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to assess the factor structure of the CAS and Item Response Theory was used to analyze item characteristics. A sequence of hierarchical variance models was used to evaluate the measurement invariance of the CAS according to age. To assess reliability, Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α) and the omega coefficient (ω) were used. The correlations between the CAS score and the scores of the PHQ-2 and GAD-2 scales were calculated with Pearson's correlation coefficient (r). RESULTS: The results of the CFA indicated that the unidimensional model of the CAS fitted the data adequately and showed very good reliability (α and ω ≥ .83). Likewise, all items provided high information and adequate discrimination, which allowed for better detection of average and high levels of coronaphobia in the older adult population. However, the CAS did not show evidence of being strictly invariant between older adults aged 60–65 years and 66–86 years. The CAS showed significant correlations with anxiety (r = .72; [95%CI: .66, .87] p < .01) and depression (r = .53; [95%CI: .43, .76] p < .01). CONCLUSION: The CAS in Spanish shows evidence of validity based on internal structure, convergent and divergent validity, as well as an adequate reliability estimate to assess coronaphobia in older adults. The CAS can be used to detect average and high levels of coronaphobia in the older adult population. SEGG. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2022 2021-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8765729/ /pubmed/34924214 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regg.2021.09.001 Text en © 2021 SEGG. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás
Vilca, Lindsey W.
Peña-Calero, Brian Norman
Barboza-Palomino, Miguel
White, Michael
Reyes-Bossio, Mario
Measurement of coronaphobia in older adults: Validation of the Spanish version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale
title Measurement of coronaphobia in older adults: Validation of the Spanish version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale
title_full Measurement of coronaphobia in older adults: Validation of the Spanish version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale
title_fullStr Measurement of coronaphobia in older adults: Validation of the Spanish version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale
title_full_unstemmed Measurement of coronaphobia in older adults: Validation of the Spanish version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale
title_short Measurement of coronaphobia in older adults: Validation of the Spanish version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale
title_sort measurement of coronaphobia in older adults: validation of the spanish version of the coronavirus anxiety scale
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8765729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34924214
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regg.2021.09.001
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